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SCA High School Teachers of the Month

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:07 PM

November - Amy McWilliams,
Social Studies
December - Kim Payne, Spanish

SCA Elementary Teachers of the Month

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:06 PM

Leslie O'Neal, 6th grade - November
Debbie Johnson, Music - December

Mr. & Miss SCA Elementary

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:03 PM

Creel Workman and Maggie Duncan

Mr. & Miss SCA Junior High

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:01 PM

Braden Overby and Ava Dunn

SCA semester one Headmasters list

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 01:57 PM

12th Grade
Bella Clark, Zy’Keria Cole, Ashley Douglas, Cameron Larkin, Megan Maddox, Scott Maddox, Anna Grace Purser, Anna Grace Shivers, Jessie Wallace, Caroline White, Haley Williamson
11th Grade
Gavin Barry, Marissa Davis, Sawyer Dunn, Gracie Giordano, Madelyn Harris, Crosby Mullins, Emma Overstreet, Drew Rogers
10th Grade
Cole Crace, Olivia Jordan, Joseph Kilpatrick, Jordan Sulliva
9th Grade

SCA term two Headmaster’s list

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 01:55 PM

12th Grade
Bella Clark, Zy’Keria Cole, Ashley Douglas, Trey Eubanks, Cameron Larkin, Megan Maddox, Scott Maddox, Anna Grace Purser, Anna Grace Shivers, Jessie Wallace, Caroline White, Haley Williamson.
11th Grade
Matthew Adcock, Madelyn Harris, Olivia Banes, Crosby Mullins, Gavin Barry, Emma Overstreet, Anna Beeson, Drew Rogers, Whitney, Bishop, Olen Shows, Bella Broadhead, Maddie Craft, Marissa Davis, Sawyer Dunn, Gracie Giordano, Mary-Madeline Grubbs.
10th Grade
Cole Crace, Olivia Jordan, Joseph Kilpatrick, Jordan Sullivan.
9th Grade

Pi Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 01:53 PM

At the most recent meeting of Pi Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Misty Hanna was recognized as the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Red Rose Award. The award is presented yearly to an outstanding woman in Rankin, Scott or Simpson County who has benefited education and the status of women in educational leadership roles. At the presentation are, from left, are Fonda Dickinson, Red Rose Committee member, and Hanna, both residents of Simpson County, and Jo Stanford, Pi Chapter Red Rose Chair, a resident of Rankin County.

Board selects Cowart to remain chairman

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Tue, 01/18/2022 - 01:14 PM

The first order of business at the Simpson County School Board’s Jan. 12 meeting seemed to create some contention over who would serve in leadership positions for the new year.
Danny Cowart cast the final vote that allowed him to serve as chairman for another year, despite the fact that he had stated his intention of not seeking another term on the school board “unless something changes.” He did not specify what “something” is or was.

Clay County Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens inspects the .22-caliber weapon that killed Danelle Young in 2009 while Special Assistant Attorney General Jackie Bost II and Sandra Levick, legal director for the Mississippi Innocence Project, watch. Blair Ballou/MCIR

MCIR: Tameshia Shelton is serving life for murder. But was the death involved really a suicide?

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Mon, 01/17/2022 - 03:48 PM

A hearing continues Tuesday to determine if a Clay County woman, serving a life sentence for the death of her sister’s boyfriend, will get a new trial.

Mississippi Stories: Dr. Jeannine Herron

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Mon, 01/17/2022 - 09:48 AM

In this episode of Mississippi Stories, Mississippi Today Editor At Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Dr. Jeannine Herron, neuropsychologist, reading expert and widow of Civil Rights photojournalist Matt Herron.

Magee Middle School will go Virtual until January 25

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Fri, 01/14/2022 - 03:39 PM

Due to an increase in the number of positive cases, Magee Middle School will be virtual beginning Tuesday, January 18, 2022. Students will return to school on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Students will be required to wear their masks to school upon return until further notice. We will continue to monitor COVID-19 cases within the school and make adjustments as needed to ensure the safety of our students. Please make sure students are logging in and completing assignments daily.

Math teacher Lakeshia Ford instructs students via Zoom at the Jefferson County Junior High School. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

K-12 schools reopened across Mississippi this week. Omicron has forced many into virtual learning.

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Fri, 01/14/2022 - 09:06 AM

A school nurse told students and families on Tuesday there were so many cases of COVID-19 in the school it was “almost impossible to contact trace” and for all seventh through 12th graders to assume they’d been exposed as a result.

The situation at West Lincoln Attendance Center in Brookhaven, where there is not a mask mandate – and its quick transition to a hybrid model of instruction following the holiday break – is not unique.

MAGEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS: Message from the school:

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Thu, 01/13/2022 - 02:57 PM

In person school Friday, January 14th is cancelled. There will be an assignment or each class on google classroom.

Monday is a holiday. Tuesday-Friday (18-21) will be online virtual learning following the same daily schedule we currently do.

Tomorrow is canceled - each student needs to complete assignments on Google classroom.

Monday- no school

Tuesday- Friday - virtual learning- all students must login to each Google classroom and complete all work.

Duane Lake spent six years in the Coahoma County Jail in a triple homicide he didn’t commit before being acquitted and gaining his release in 2021. He lost his marriage, his livelihood and time with his children. Now he’s trying to put his life back together. Rory Doyle/MCIR

‘Dead zone’ leads innocent man to spend six years behind bars

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Thu, 01/13/2022 - 01:48 PM

Duane Lake spent six years locked up in a jail cell in Clarksdale for a triple murder he didn’t commit.

“I lost it all — my family, my marriage, my job, my career,” said the 35-year-old welder. “Now I’m working, trying to get everything back. I’ve got to take it one day at a time.”

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Congratulate Miss. Students Chosen For 2022 U.S. Senate Youth Program

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Thu, 01/13/2022 - 11:36 AM

Below is a press release from Senators Cindy Hyde Smith and Roger Wicker :

Madison & Rankin County Youths Will Represent State Virtually, Receive $10,000 Scholarships

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today congratulated Emily Lauren Adcock of Madison and Vaibhavi Jayant Mahajan of Brandon on their selection to represent Mississippi at the 60th annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP).

Laurel resident Marlan Baucum, easily pushes over one of the many dying trees on his property. Baucum believes a disposal well not far from his home has contaminated the water table in the area, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

‘Quit is not in my vocabulary’: After his wife got cancer, this Mississippi man took oil companies to court

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Thu, 01/13/2022 - 11:12 AM

This Jones County couple believes that a government agency tasked with protecting Mississippians has failed to do so.

Driving down his curving, wooded street on the edges of Laurel, Marlan Baucum points to each house where a neighbor had cancer.

He knows of 10 people on his street who have been diagnosed, four of whom have already died. Most have had leukemia, but one neighbor had esophageal cancer — the same type as his wife.

Mississippi continues to give financial aid to students who can already afford college, report shows

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Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:30 AM

Mississippi continued to disproportionately subsidize in-state tuition for white, wealthier students at the expense of working class students of color last school year, according to the annual report released Thursday by the Post-Secondary Education Financial Assistance Board.

Last year, Mississippi continued to spend almost half of its limited financial aid budget on programs that mainly benefit students whose families can already afford to pay for college, according to the report.

In addition to wearing masks, students practice social distancing throughout the Jefferson County school system. Some of math teacher Lakeshia Ford’s students participate in class from home via Zoom. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

House unveils their own massive teacher pay raise, tops Senate proposal

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Wed, 01/12/2022 - 09:18 AM

A day after the state Senate proposed the largest Mississippi teacher pay raise in decades, the House topped it with its own proposal that would increase all teachers by $4,000 to $6,000 a year and boost starting pay above both the Southeastern and national averages.

Holloway visits Magee

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Tue, 01/11/2022 - 02:08 PM

Simpson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Toriano Holloway, standing, center, visits the Magee High School fieldhouse to talk to MHS athletes about leadership.

Camden get buck

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Tue, 01/11/2022 - 01:58 PM

Camden Duckworth, eight-year-old son of Josh and Natalie Duckworth of Magee, nabbed this monster buck on January 9. It was evident he was a king of the woods as he had lost half of his rack while tussling with other bucks. Camden was hunting on family land.

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